- Do you wish you could have more real-time access so you know what is happening?

The Problem - Disconnected Teams and Data

Current project controls approaches are flawed, wasteful and unsustainable. These legacy solutions are disconnected and substandard, leaving project team members uncertain and exposed to factors that impair their productivity, including:

- Siloed information - teams must chase information across organizations and applications, which slows the discovery of issues that can drive up costs and delay schedules.

- Manual updates - typically made via spreadsheets, these introduce errors and duplication that can jeopardize both data integrity and version control.

- Poor visibility - lack of accurate, real-time information makes it impossible to measure performance against budget in a meaningful and proactive way for a single project, much less a portfolio of projects or an enterprise.

"Cost management in construction and infrastructure projects has been fragmented, resulting in poor project performance," said Guy Barlow, global commercial director, Connected Cost, at Aconex. "So it's no surprise that only about 5% of projects meet best-in-class predictability in terms of cost and schedule.[1] Approximately 80% run over budget, and the average cost overrun is 70%.[2]"

Per Mr. Barlow, what has been missing is connected data and unified processes which provide reliable, real-time project visibility. Without a single view of project performance and subcontractor progress, owners and contractors have had to piece together project and cost information from multiple sources. As projects have grown larger and more complex, these disconnected data silos have undermined successful delivery, diminished financial returns and increased risk.

Connected Cost is an end-to-end project controls and cost management Software as a Service (SaaS) solution underpinned by three guiding principles which differentiate it from traditional project controls solutions:

- Single platform - with all project participants connected on a single platform and following a consistent set of processes throughout the project lifecycle, teams can improve efficiency and mitigate risk to achieve on-time, on-budget delivery.

- Enterprise grade - Connected Cost is fast to deploy across the enterprise. The solution is highly scalable and configurable for specific industry processes and integrates with ERP (enterprise resource planning) and scheduling systems. Adoption is quick with an easy to learn and use interface.

- Neutral environment - with the secure Aconex platform, all project participants - whether owner, contractor, subcontractor, consultant, or vendor - control what information they share, if and when they share it, and with whom they share it. Access neutrality creates and sustains a culture of trust.

Connected Cost leverages the underlying strength of the Aconex project-wide collaboration platform - born in the cloud, built for enterprise-wide adoption, anchored by principles of access neutrality, and proven for more than 15 years. From the owner to the subcontractor, everyone benefits as improved information flow leads to better decision-making and better deployment of resources.

Aconex Limited (ASX:ACX) provides the #1 cloud collaboration platform for digital project delivery. This platform connects owners, contractors and their project teams in the construction, infrastructure, and energy and resources sectors, providing project-wide visibility and control between the many different organisations collaborating across their projects. With more than 70,000 user organisations in 70 countries, Aconex is the industry’s most widely adopted and trusted platform. Founded in 2000, Aconex has 47 offices in 23 countries around the world. The company's ordinary shares are traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the ticker code ACX and are included in the S&P/ASX 200 Index.